Hey guys n gurls, I was wondering if it is smart to disable my VPN connection for casual browsing.

Reasons: when having VPN constantly running it may be possible to track me via browser fingerprinting.

Szenario: the connection coming from the VPN which hypothetically downloaded a torrent has this screen ratio, this locale, this addons etc. And (more important) the YouTube login cookie we know belongs to this physical person/telephone number etc.

So I am wondering if I should only use the VPN when “needing” it (read articles not available in country, Netflix, read information government doesn’t like, things like that.) Or if I’m missing something here and I could obscure my causal day to day browsing as well without decreasing the security of the VPN.

For reference, the VPN doesn’t log anything (for more than a day) to my knowledge

  • Darken@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    For android:

    • open settings
    • search for always on VPN (or open it manually, search is just easier)
    • enable it
    • and enable block access without VPN

    So now your device will nag if you disable the VPN and will refuse internet access for apps outside the specified VPN profile

    Example image: VPN Settings

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Problem: you csn’t use split tunneling with this solution, so if you want to connect to your local devices at home, that won’t work.